Drip-pan for sewing-machines



(No Model.)

W. OONNOLLY.

DRIP PAN FORSEWING MACHINES.

N0.299, '743. Patented June 3, 1884.

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\VILLIAM CONNOLLY, OF SOUTH NORVVALK, CONNECTICUT.

DRIP-PAN F OR SEWING-MACHINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 299,743, dated June 3, 1884-.

. Application filed January 30, 1884. No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM CONNOLLY,

.of South Norwalk, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and Improved Drip-Pan for Sewing-Machines, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple, inexpensive contrivance of a drippan and attachments, to be held beneath the table of a sewing or other machine to save the oil which drops from the working parts of the machine.

The invention consists in an oil drip-pan having an inclined bottom fitted with a strainer and dischargeneck, on which a cup or vessel to receive the dripoil may be fixed, or through. which neck the oil may flow into a cup held on the end of a pipe leading to a conduit receiving the oil-drip from a number of machines and conveying the oil toa common receptacle, all as hereinafter fully described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters, of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is an under side perspective view of my improved drip-pan as applied to the table of a sewing-machine, and with a dripcup attached as when a number of machines are arranged to be worked in line or near each other. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional elevation of the machine-table and drip-pan having a drip-cup attached as for a single machine; and Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view of the drip-cup shown in Fig. 1.

To the under side of the machine-table a, I attach the drip-pan I), here shown in the form of a shallow rectangular box open at the top to receive the oil which drips from the working parts of the machine. The bottom of the pan b inclines downward from all sides toward one point, here shown at about the center of the pan, where a strainer, 0, of any suitable kind, is fixed over an opening of the pan, so as to retain heavy sediments or other matters in the pan and pass the dripoil through a screw neck or nozzle, (1, held to the panbeneath the strainer, into a cup, 6, screwed onto or into the neck d, as in Fig. 2; or the drip-oil may pass from the neck into a cup, f, held on a pipe, g,which is supported in the eye h of a bracket, 1', fixed to the pan b on the table a, and so as to carry the drip- .oil from the pan to any suitable conveyer-pipe (not shown) ranging along a number of sewing or other machines, to collect the drip-oil from all of them into a common receptacle; and I propose to fit the pipes 9, leading from the oil-cups f, in or over branch pipes or necks of the conveyer pipe in any suitable manner. The single cup 0 may readily be removed from the neck (1 to empty the collected drip-oil from it.

I show the neck d fastened to pan 1) by a flange, k, fixed to the pan, on which flange the collar Z of the neck rests but the neck may be secured to the pan in any other suitable manner.

My device is extremely simple, and in use will effect a saving of oil which is usually wasted by wiping it into cloths and the like, and where a large number of machines are in use the saving of oil will be considerable; and with the use of my improvements the goods being sewed will be less liable to be.

soiled by the oil overflowing from the machine drip-pan.

The pan b may have any size and shape re quired by the particular construction of the sewing or other machine to which it is applied.

Having thus described myinvention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. A drip pan for sewing or other machines, constructed with an inclined apertured bottom, and a fixed screw neck, (I,

adapted to receive a drip-cup, e, substantially as shown and described.

2. The combination, with the machine-table a, of an oil drip pan, b, having an in clined apertnred bottom, a discharge-neck, d, and an oil-receptacle, e, fitted on the neck, substantially as shown and described.

3. The combination, with the machine-table (1, of an oil drip -pan, I), having an in clined apertured bottom, and a strainer, c, fitted over the discharge-neck d, substantially as shown and described.

4. The combination, with the table a of a .sewing or other machine, and the drip-pan I),

providedwith an inclined bottom having a discharge aperture or neck, of the cup f, for

receiving the drip from the pan, and fitted to a pipe, g, leading" to a receiver for the oil, substantially as shown and described.

XVitnesses: WILLIAM CONNOLLY.

CHARLES GANGVERE, Davin Swonns. 

